Your top three recommendations to make DC a better place for locals and visitors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More parking. Get rid of bike lanes no one uses

Yeah, that will make DC an even nicer place. Widen the roads, increase speed limits and make it easier for suburbanites to drive around DC. Brilliant. Turn DC into a car sewer dump like GA Ave near the Beltway.

[Anonymous]

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i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

That's because the Japanese actually punish drivers who kill. As you're well aware, we don't do that here, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Otherwise, we'll wind up as another Cleveland or Indianapolis skyline.

Except we'll never be Cleveland or Indy unless the Capitol up and leaves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Re-criminalize pot.

Never going to happen. But continue holding your breath until it does, it's rather amusing.

[Anonymous]

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3. End home rule, district has proven they are not up to the task. (Addresses poor choices repeated time and again by DC voters)

Colonization of DC local governance is rooted in racism. All the way back to the Organic Act of 1801. You know that, though. You just don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

That's because the Japanese actually punish drivers who kill. As you're well aware, we don't do that here, unfortunately.

I am well aware. My biking cousin was killed last year by a drunk illegal who walked free.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Enforce the damn traffic laws.
2. Enforce the damn traffic laws.
3. Enforce the damn traffic laws.

Except Idaho Stop and red light running for bikes, right?. Not those traffic laws.

Idaho stop is legal, there's no law against it to enforce.

It’s not legal if there are other vehicles or pedestrians using the intersection at the time the cyclist performs an Idaho Stop.

FFS, you illustrate the problem perfectly - you’re a cyclist who makes zero effort to even understand the law. Why should you? It’s not as though you’ll ever comply with any.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
3. End home rule, district has proven they are not up to the task. (Addresses poor choices repeated time and again by DC voters)

Colonization of DC local governance is rooted in racism. All the way back to the Organic Act of 1801. You know that, though. You just don't care.

DP I care. I had to move off of Capital Hill for safety ussues. Got mugged. DC government has been corrupt since I moved there in 1988. Comments saying so have nothing to do with racism.

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1. Dogs— pick up their poop. Keep their leashes on. Create the right set up so they stop escaping.
2. Stop the sale/import/trafficking of guns into the city. Someone/thing is targeting youth because young teens didn’t use to carry guns.
3 development should account for more/shared green space. The city is squeezing in shelters, space for elderly and low income into tight spaces, leaving people no choice but hang out on sidewalks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
3. End home rule, district has proven they are not up to the task. (Addresses poor choices repeated time and again by DC voters)

Colonization of DC local governance is rooted in racism. All the way back to the Organic Act of 1801. You know that, though. You just don't care.

Nice way of letting everyone know that you haven’t bothered to read the Constitution.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Relax the height restriction in a sensible way, with preference given to new residential and mixed uses.
2. Improve enforcement of traffic laws with ticket reciprocity and an enforcement division.
3. Improve and densify public spaces, with more events and more control over commerce in public spaces
(this last one is really an NPS issue re: the Mall and downtown parks, but DC sure would benefit from solving it).

A lot of the quality of life things that people cite are actually a function of #1. Downtown isn't dense enough to be fully vibrant without 100% in office workers, and in much of downtown its uses aren't diverse enough. Also, a lot of larger private sector business stays in VA because they can't find contiguous space to expand in DC.

Trying to make DC more suburb-like (with more parking and less bike infrastructure) will never work; the suburbs will always win on that front, and the city has spent decades and millions of dollars undoing the negative consequences of pursuing that strategy from the 50s to the 80s. DC has to lean into what makes it special and interesting and unique, which means emphasizing being around other people and doing cool things. More density downtown and better use of public spaces for events, food, and commerce would bring more people downtown, better traffic enforcement would make the experience of being out and about more pleasant, and a lot of the other stuff people worry about would just follow along. Also, more residential density downtown would raise revenues again to help offset the decline of office space.

Getting rid of the height act restrictions would give away a huge distinguishing feature of Washington, DC, which leads to open vistas, light, green space and a more human-scale city. Otherwise, we'll wind up as another Cleveland or Indianapolis skyline.

People that harp about DC building height don’t understand the difference between being a city and a capital city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:More parking. Get rid of bike lanes no one uses

Yeah, that will make DC an even nicer place. Widen the roads, increase speed limits and make it easier for suburbanites to drive around DC. Brilliant. Turn DC into a car sewer dump like GA Ave near the Beltway.

If you think of streets in a city as analogous to the blood vessels in your body, getting rid of parking spaces and replacing them with bike lanes is like giving a city arteriosclerosis. It makes it a lot harder for the vast majority of people to get around the city. People aren't going to switch to bikes just because there's bike lanes. They'll just stop going to the parts of the city where it's a pain in the ass to drive or park. I know I haven't been to Georgetown in years because getting around Georgetown fking sucks. How does it help anyone to have a balkanized city?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

That's because the Japanese actually punish drivers who kill. As you're well aware, we don't do that here, unfortunately.

I am well aware. My biking cousin was killed last year by a drunk illegal who walked free.

Wow, that’s really gotta cause a lot of mental consternation in the minds of the cyclist set.

They instinctively viscerally hate any driver who hits a cyclist….BUT, being a progressive crowd, they also love illegal immigrants as much as life itself.

Talk about an emotional conflict. Be funny if their heads would just explode from it like in that old movie “Scanners” haha

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

Seek help. Seriously, you need it.

That's because the Japanese actually punish drivers who kill. As you're well aware, we don't do that here, unfortunately.

I am well aware. My biking cousin was killed last year by a drunk illegal who walked free.

Wow, that’s really gotta cause a lot of mental consternation in the minds of the cyclist set.

They instinctively viscerally hate any driver who hits a cyclist….BUT, being a progressive crowd, they also love illegal immigrants as much as life itself.

Talk about an emotional conflict. Be funny if their heads would just explode from it like in that old movie “Scanners” haha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

That's because the Japanese actually punish drivers who kill. As you're well aware, we don't do that here, unfortunately.

I am well aware. My biking cousin was killed last year by a drunk illegal who walked free.

Wow, that’s really gotta cause a lot of mental consternation in the minds of the cyclist set.

They instinctively viscerally hate any driver who hits a cyclist….BUT, being a progressive crowd, they also love illegal immigrants as much as life itself.

Talk about an emotional conflict. Be funny if their heads would just explode from it like in that old movie “Scanners” haha

Could the US build a one-way protected bike lane to the southern boarder and make Mexico pay for it?